"O fare ye weel, my Sarah!

"For I maun gae, though I ne'er return,

"Frae the dowie banks o' Yarrow.

She kissed his cheek, she kaimed his hair,

As oft she had done before, O;

She belted him with his noble brand,

And he's awa' to Yarrow.

As he gaed up the Tennies bank,

I wot he gaed wi' sorrow,

Till, down in a den, he spied nine arm'd men,